The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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